Holiday entertainment.
(I know I said I wouldn't post anymore for the year but this is, to pardon the pun, just *precious*)For you Lord of the Rings/Med geeks out there.
From this article I've learnt that:
1. It's not that hard to get published in the British Medical Journal (only one of the most prestigious and authoritative medical journals in the world) after all.
2. I should have applied to Royal Free/UC in London instead, their curriculum sounds way more interesting.
3. It is impossible to resist the desire to diagnose everyone and everything around you... this latest exercise adds to the growing list of people in history with inferred diagnoses... e.g.
i) Goliath had a pituitary adenoma (brain tumour), which manifests as gigantism (big size) and bitemporal hemianopia (the tumour presses on nerves connecting the eye to the brain, so that he has reduced peripheral vision). This visual impairment allowed David (12 year old shepherd) to sneak up from the side and kill him. David's hypothesised attack from the side is supported by the fact that the only feasible place for a small stone to kill a big skull like Goliath's is if David hit him in the pterion (a weak spot on the side of the skull), to which the middle meningial artery lies. Rupture of this artery produces an extradural haemorrhage sufficient to kill him.
ii) Contrary to a recent Schweppes ad suggesting that Monet painted everything in a hazy red hue because he was looking through a glass of the company's soft drink, it was actually because he was suffering from macular degeneration. One can cynically argue, therefore, that the artistic period of Impressionism was started by visual impairment rather than a deliberate aim to create a new genre.
4. Med people have the nerdiest sense of humour... while we're laughing at the article, other people are probably laughing at us... hahaha oh well, y'all just jealous, I know it.... hahahaha.
posted by me. @ 11:07 AM
2 Comments:
I'm glad you decided to post again. I have just read your latest post and I thank you for a wealth of interesting information to ponder. I wish you continued success.
Hello there, thankyou for leaving a comment!
Haha I wasn't going to post for the rest of the year but I think I'm about to go back on my word big time... I keep reading things in the paper that make me wanna say something back!
Anyway hope you like reading as much as I like writing. Have a great Christmas!
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